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I know it’s been a while since the last book review, but fear no more, I’ve been reading and have a few in line for the next few days :)
The first new review is about one of the books in John Ringo’s Paladin of Shadows series, also called the Ghost series. This series starts with [...]

Ok, next time my brother has computer problems, remind me not to make fun of him.
He’s a windows and OSX user, and his windows box was being dumb…since he was coming to town, he decided to bring it with him so the guy he bought it from (a friend of mine who I’ve been buying [...]

Well, yesterday was a very good day for all bloggers :) In the Apple v. Does (Does as in John/Jane Doe, aka we-have-no-clue-what-their-name-is) case, the Appeals Court ruled [PDF] that bloggers are journalists and are entitled to protection under the California shield law that protects journalists by not allowing journalists to be prosecuted for contempt [...]

In what can be called the most surprising about-face in the patent-wars in Europe, the EC went from:
“The Commission maintains that, without the directive, patents on computerised inventions will continue being granted by national offices and the European Patent Office,” said the Commission in a statement.
to a totally different song:
“The EPO would… apply and be [...]

Tomorrow/today (depending on when you’re reading this) is Towel Day. On May 25th, we celebrate the life of Douglas Adams, author, among other things, of one of the best books ever written, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Why Towel Day? Well…to quote from HHGG:

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing [...]

I tend to watch the blog of the LibrarianInBlack, mostly because…I like books, and she’s one of the most interesting librarians in the blogosphere…and today she came up with one of the best ideas I’ve read in a long long time.
She talks about her asking non-techies about RSS and podcasts, and finding out that nobody [...]

So, the New York Times has an interesting article today. You need to sell your soul…err…subscribe to read the article, but it’s an interesting one.
During an interview in ABC’s “This Week” news program, Alberto R. Gonzalez, Attorney General, said:
“But it can’t be the case that that right [the First Amendment's right] trumps over the right [...]

In this six part article (found via Doc Searls blog), Tristan Louis writes about the trends he sees on the Net today and where those trends may be taking us in the future. I think, for the most part, that him being away from his blog for most of last month was a good thing, [...]

Ok, Rich sent me this in an email with the subject “this is your laptop on linux…any questions? :P”…so I had to see it, and…I almost busted my gut laughing :) I don’t post this kind of stuff, but this one is worth it :)
Your laptop on linux
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So…the U.S. State Department decided that having a foreign-made computer in secure networks was a security risk, and now Lenovo computers can’t be used in secure networks.
There’s two things about this decision that are, to me, proof that the people in the State Department are dumber than a rock.
First one is that it seems like [...]